Science at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 1)

• identify a range of familiar sounds eg that's water trickling, that's us singing in assembly
• listen carefully to identify different speakers

• identify different ways in which simple musical instruments make sounds
• group instruments and objects and compare how many there are in each group

• describe sounds using a range of appropriate vocabulary
• recognise that some sounds give us pleasure and others do not

• identify how they can make sounds
• recognise that when they do so parts of their bodies move

• state that they hear sounds through their ears
• recognise that our ears also give information about where sounds are coming from eg I pointed to where the buzzer was when I had my eyes shut, I didn't need to see
• suggest how to find out about hearing eg you could cover one ear and both ears and listen to the sound

• recognise that we use hearing to sense danger as well as to communicate and to hear pleasant sounds

• identify some very loud sounds
• recognise these sounds are louder when they are nearer to the source
• recognise that loud sounds can be harmful

• state that when they are far away they can't hear people talking
• measure distance from their position to the sound source using a non-standard measure or a metre stick or tape measure and record their measure

• contribute to a chart eg a block graph presenting the results
• compare measurements eg I stopped nearer to the sound than John stopped
• compare how far they were from the two sources when they stopped hearing them eg I went five metres with the loud source and two metres with the soft source
• state that they could hear the louder sound further away than the softer sound